This is a hauntingly beautiful song about introspection, specifically about looking back at a relationship that started bad and ended so poorly, that the narrator wants to go back to the very beginning and tell himself to not even travel down that road. I believe that the relationship started poorly because of the lines:
"Take me back to the night we met:When the night was full of terrors: And your eyes were filled with tears: When you had not touched me yet"
So, the first night was not a great start, but the narrator pursued the relationship and eventually both overcame the rough start to fall in love with each other:
"I had all and then most of you"
Like many relationships that turn sour, it was not a quick decline, but a gradual one where the narrator and their partner fall out of love and gradually grow apart
"Some and now none of you"
Losing someone who was once everything in your world, who you could confide in, tell your secrets to, share all the most intimate parts of your life, to being strangers with that person is probably one of the most painful experiences a person can go through. So Painful, the narrator wants to go back in time and tell himself to not even pursue the relationship.
This was the perfect song for "13 Reasons Why"
You said I'm yours to keep
With your voice so deep
But you were just talking in your sleep
I'll do just what you crave
My life for you I'll waive
All I get is the spot next to your grave
And you're a fool to not see
I'm not hanging here
to keep you company
[*]
But what am I suppose to do when all hope is gone?
How am I suppose to leave you when you're the only one?
I made a deal with Mr. Hades
my soul he wants to buy
For you I'll die
Oh this is the end
My only friend, the end
are words from our favourite band
I know we're not astray
And my love won't decay
Are things that you'll never say
It is strange how time flies
It's been a year that's gone by
and you don't know the colour of my eyes
[*]
For you I'll die
No oh, no oh oh, no oh
And you're a fool to not see
I'm not hanging here
to keep you company
It is strange how time flies
It's been a year that's gone by
and you don't know the colour of my eyes
[*]
For you I'll die
For you I'll die
For you I'll die
With your voice so deep
But you were just talking in your sleep
I'll do just what you crave
My life for you I'll waive
All I get is the spot next to your grave
And you're a fool to not see
I'm not hanging here
to keep you company
[*]
But what am I suppose to do when all hope is gone?
How am I suppose to leave you when you're the only one?
I made a deal with Mr. Hades
my soul he wants to buy
For you I'll die
Oh this is the end
My only friend, the end
are words from our favourite band
I know we're not astray
And my love won't decay
Are things that you'll never say
It is strange how time flies
It's been a year that's gone by
and you don't know the colour of my eyes
[*]
For you I'll die
No oh, no oh oh, no oh
And you're a fool to not see
I'm not hanging here
to keep you company
It is strange how time flies
It's been a year that's gone by
and you don't know the colour of my eyes
[*]
For you I'll die
For you I'll die
For you I'll die
Lyrics submitted by dont_say_a_word17
For You I'll Die Lyrics as written by Marion Raven
Lyrics © Sony/ATV Music Publishing LLC, Warner Chappell Music, Inc.
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Marion's comments on what the song means:
"For You I'll Die" was inspired by the love Jim Morrison shared with his long-time companion Pamela Courson, coupled with their stormy relationship, separations and reunions. Raven wrote the ballad after reading the American singer's biography. “ I was in this Jim Morrison period where I was listening to the box set, reading his biography and watching the movie, I was very touched by Jim's relationship with Pamela, how she would always be there for him. The song is about being willing to do that for someone, but getting nothing in return except a spot in the grave next to them. "